Labor, Democracy and Freedom Block Elections Manifesto
Labor, Democracy and Freedom Block Elections Manifesto
The Labor, Democracy and Freedom Block has presented its elections manifesto. It is a very articulated project with a vision for the future. It is a document touching upon all the different spheres of the political and social life in Turkey.
We are starting here to report on some of the issues addressed by the manifesto.
DEMOCRATIC SOLUTION AND PEACE AT THE KURDISH PROBLEM
The Kurdish question, where no one demands a choice except a democratic, peaceful solution, must definitely be solved within this period. It is now not a promise but a task to review the past by consulting our consciences and to stop the blood still poured because of the Kurdish problem.
When people are so disposed and hopeful about peace, we will not let the war begin again for AKP's votes and interests. We will take initiative for a lasting peace and we will display the two faces of the AKP, which on one hand feeds from conflicts and on the other hand declares everyone except itself as warmongering.
None of us has any endurance left for a war to last 30 years more, for a single life to be lost, for the wealth to be lost. The power in particular, all circles must set their political and economical rents aside and display a will of solution with an intimate approach for the constitution of a lasting peace that the Turkish society has longed for many years; the demands and expectations of the Kurdish people must be taken into account and the three-year old talks in Imralý must urgently be turned into a negotiation process. The AKP government, just like all the powers that insist on the impossibility of a solution
and subject the Turkish society to war, conflict, pain and tear for economic rents rather than people’s living together in peace and brotherhood, will be forced by us to pay the price before history. We will introduce the solution with our own power and determination and without hoping for help from the power for the solution.
ECONOMY
Central, regional and local mechanisms will be created to provide the supervision and participation of producers, consumers and employees outside of the government in the economy management through professional groups and civil society organizations;
For the development of industrialization, agriculture, animal husbandry, science and technology on the basis of political and economic democracy in accordance with the society’s general interests, the targets will be the participation of the society in the economic life through cooperatives and modern democratic aggregate enterprises where employees also take part in return for their labor;
Development projects will be created with the participation of Local and Regional Authorities and Civil Society Organizations, Regional Development Centers will be established to eliminate regional disparities with certain intense investments, a Central Development Fund will be established to be transferred to the depressed areas.
EQUAL AND FREE SOCIAL SECURITY FOR ALL
Low-income families will be supported by social benefits; the homeless will be taken under protection and security,
Street children and orphans have substance dependence and live under poor conditions likely for all kinds of abuses. Our alliance will establish centers for these children where they will be provided with accommodation, education, guidance and health care,
People with old-age and disease cases requiring special care will be included in the social insurance,
An effective fight will be given against illegal employment; disincentives will be applied for the inclusion of all employees within social security.
CONSTITUTION
We will all together issue the new constitution which doesn’t impose any ideology and describe the nation and citizenship on an ethnical basis, restricts the powers of the state, predicated on individual-collective rights, sides with labour, a gender libertarian constitute that shows the same respect to the nature and the human being and protects all separate cultures, beliefs, values of Turkey.
DEMOCRATIC AUTONOMY
We regard the Democratic Autonomy, which means democratic self-government, as the reinforcement of the qualifications appropriate to the democratic republic.
A radical reform must be made in the political and administrative structure for the actualization of the Democratic Autonomy which will be the assurance of democratic union and the model of direct and participatory democracy, not of division and deterioration as asserted.
On this basis, Turkey will be separated into 20-25 autonomous regional governments according to their socio-economic structures which will serve as the administrative and political governing body between the central government and local governments, ensure the direct public participation in the administration and be an important step in terms of democratization.
This administrative model also includes regional councils which will have a political and administrative legal and political security and identity.
These regional councils will be responsible for service areas such as education, health, culture, social services, agriculture, navigation, industry, town planning, environment, tourism, telecommunications, women, youth, sports and others. Foreign affairs finance and defense services will be conducted by the central government, security and justice services by the central government and regional councils. Besides the official language Turkish, regions will use other second and third languages according to their specific needs.
We are starting here to report on some of the issues addressed by the manifesto.
DEMOCRATIC SOLUTION AND PEACE AT THE KURDISH PROBLEM
The Kurdish question, where no one demands a choice except a democratic, peaceful solution, must definitely be solved within this period. It is now not a promise but a task to review the past by consulting our consciences and to stop the blood still poured because of the Kurdish problem.
When people are so disposed and hopeful about peace, we will not let the war begin again for AKP's votes and interests. We will take initiative for a lasting peace and we will display the two faces of the AKP, which on one hand feeds from conflicts and on the other hand declares everyone except itself as warmongering.
None of us has any endurance left for a war to last 30 years more, for a single life to be lost, for the wealth to be lost. The power in particular, all circles must set their political and economical rents aside and display a will of solution with an intimate approach for the constitution of a lasting peace that the Turkish society has longed for many years; the demands and expectations of the Kurdish people must be taken into account and the three-year old talks in Imralý must urgently be turned into a negotiation process. The AKP government, just like all the powers that insist on the impossibility of a solution
and subject the Turkish society to war, conflict, pain and tear for economic rents rather than people’s living together in peace and brotherhood, will be forced by us to pay the price before history. We will introduce the solution with our own power and determination and without hoping for help from the power for the solution.
ECONOMY
Central, regional and local mechanisms will be created to provide the supervision and participation of producers, consumers and employees outside of the government in the economy management through professional groups and civil society organizations;
For the development of industrialization, agriculture, animal husbandry, science and technology on the basis of political and economic democracy in accordance with the society’s general interests, the targets will be the participation of the society in the economic life through cooperatives and modern democratic aggregate enterprises where employees also take part in return for their labor;
Development projects will be created with the participation of Local and Regional Authorities and Civil Society Organizations, Regional Development Centers will be established to eliminate regional disparities with certain intense investments, a Central Development Fund will be established to be transferred to the depressed areas.
EQUAL AND FREE SOCIAL SECURITY FOR ALL
Low-income families will be supported by social benefits; the homeless will be taken under protection and security,
Street children and orphans have substance dependence and live under poor conditions likely for all kinds of abuses. Our alliance will establish centers for these children where they will be provided with accommodation, education, guidance and health care,
People with old-age and disease cases requiring special care will be included in the social insurance,
An effective fight will be given against illegal employment; disincentives will be applied for the inclusion of all employees within social security.
CONSTITUTION
We will all together issue the new constitution which doesn’t impose any ideology and describe the nation and citizenship on an ethnical basis, restricts the powers of the state, predicated on individual-collective rights, sides with labour, a gender libertarian constitute that shows the same respect to the nature and the human being and protects all separate cultures, beliefs, values of Turkey.
DEMOCRATIC AUTONOMY
We regard the Democratic Autonomy, which means democratic self-government, as the reinforcement of the qualifications appropriate to the democratic republic.
A radical reform must be made in the political and administrative structure for the actualization of the Democratic Autonomy which will be the assurance of democratic union and the model of direct and participatory democracy, not of division and deterioration as asserted.
On this basis, Turkey will be separated into 20-25 autonomous regional governments according to their socio-economic structures which will serve as the administrative and political governing body between the central government and local governments, ensure the direct public participation in the administration and be an important step in terms of democratization.
This administrative model also includes regional councils which will have a political and administrative legal and political security and identity.
These regional councils will be responsible for service areas such as education, health, culture, social services, agriculture, navigation, industry, town planning, environment, tourism, telecommunications, women, youth, sports and others. Foreign affairs finance and defense services will be conducted by the central government, security and justice services by the central government and regional councils. Besides the official language Turkish, regions will use other second and third languages according to their specific needs.
